Managed Kubernetes Service [MKS] Standard Plan
The Managed Kubernetes Service Standard plan has graduated from Labs. Built for production and critical workloads, it complements the Free plan with a dedicated, highly available control plane.
- Failure proof your clusters
- Dedicated Control Plane resources
- Large choice of worker node flavors
- Status
- GA
- Category
- Platform & DevTools
- Access
- Open
- Release date
Key facts
- GA
- since Sep 15, 2025
- Where
- all 3-AZ regions, Mumbai, Roubaix
- SLA
- 99.99%
Resilience for your production workloads
After a beta shaped by your feedback, the Managed Kubernetes Service Standard plan is now generally available: a managed Kubernetes offer designed for critical workloads, high availability and enterprise-grade production environments.
In 3-AZ regions, its control plane is deployed across three availability zones, which makes it natively fault tolerant to the loss of a zone. With a 99.99% SLA, a dedicated etcd (up to 8 GB) and clusters scaling up to 500 nodes, the Standard plan gives your cloud-native applications the resilience and scalability they need.
The control plane is billed by the hour on top of your node pools (instances, storage) and network resources (Load Balancer, Gateway...). See the Public Cloud prices for details.
Compare our Kubernetes plans
| Free | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Control Plane | Managed | Managed, cross-AZ resilient in 3-AZ regions |
| Availability | 99.5% SLO | 99.99% SLA |
| etcd | Shared, up to 400 MB | Dedicated, up to 8 GB |
| Max cluster size | Up to 100 nodes | Up to 500 nodes |
| CNI | Canal (Flannel + Calico) | Cilium (eBPF) |
| Upgrade strategies | In-place | In-place and rolling |
| Regional availability | Single-zone regions | All 3-AZ regions, Mumbai and Roubaix |
| Pricing | Free control plane | Hourly control plane |
Not sure which one fits? Read Choosing the right plan: Free or Standard.
Failure-proof your cloud native application
Deploy highly resilient cloud native applications in our multi-zone regions. The Kubernetes control plane is deployed regionally and the data plane is multi-zone.
You keep full control over the zones your worker nodes run in. Deploying in a 3-AZ region also gives you the full range of regional services to strengthen your application:
- Well-architected applications relying on resilient managed services (MKS + Load Balancer + Gateway + DBaaS + Object Storage...)
- Advanced in-cluster networking with Cilium as the CNI
- Better API server performance and scaling capacity
- Rolling upgrades of your node pools
Questions, answered.
In a Standard cluster in a 3-AZ region, the control plane components are deployed in high availability and automatically replicated across the three zones of the region. For a Free cluster, control plane components are deployed in high availability within a single zone. For node pools, you choose the zones your nodes are deployed in, as long as they belong to the same region as the control plane.
The Free plan comes with a 99.5% monthly availability SLO. The Standard plan comes with a 99.99% SLA.
In all OVHcloud 3-AZ regions, where its control plane is spread across the three zones, and in the Mumbai and Roubaix 1-AZ regions.
In accordance with our responsibility matrix, OVHcloud installs the Kubernetes control plane (API server, storage and other controllers) and keeps it in operational condition. These components run on resources and in a project owned by OVHcloud. The customer is responsible for securing their worker nodes, containers and pods, for correctly sizing the infrastructure managed by Kubernetes, and for backing up their data.
Shape what ships next.
Join the User Experience Program to test upcoming products, get early alpha and beta access, and put your fingerprints on the roadmap.